Number 22

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 111 draws, 6 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.12σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 12% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

14longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, +0.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 111 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 17 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 22 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.7
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.0
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.0
4th smallest4 · chance 3.8
5th smallest1 · chance 1.3
6th smallest1 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 12 2 3 23 36

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 22 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 22 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-22	4	2nd	2 22 23 29 30 41
2026-08-08	7	4th	3 5 8 22 23 45
2026-07-15	3	3rd	4 11 22 27 33 36
2026-07-04	7	2nd

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 22 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.